William Goldingwas born and grew up in Cornwall in 1911. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. Originally, Golding was brought up to be a scientist, but he eventually gave up on that. After two years at Oxford University, William read English literature instead, and became devoted to Anglo-Saxon. From the years of 1935 to 1939, William Golding was occupied doing several different jobs such as being a actor, a writer, a producer, and a settlement house worker. Around that time, he moved to Salisbury where he began teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth's School. There he raised his two children with his wife.
Education
He attended Marlborough Grammar School. In 1930 He went to Oxford University as an undergraduate at Brasenose College. He studied Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English Literature.EMMA Golding took his B.A. Second Class in the summer of 1934, and later that year his first book, Poems, was published in London
Lord of the Flies Golding kept a private journal where he kept his personal secrets and feelings. In this journal, he described how he once turned two groups of boys against one another which may have been his inspiration for writing his most acclaimed novel Lord of the Flies. After his teaching experience in Salisbury, William Golding joined the Royal Navy starting out as a regular seaman and then later on as a commander of the German ship called the Bismarck. With his navy experiences along with his past teaching experiences, Golding found inspiration to write a novel “Lord of the Flies”. He wanted to create a plot that would portray the way humans in the world act and how devious we can be. But, during this time, a war was going on and all books on this topic were censored. In order for William to get his book published, he censored his own work by trying to get his message out in another way. He wrote a plot in which boys on a stranded island turn against another and become belligerent. This demonstrates how the people of the world will take horrible actions in order to get what they want and how much hate we can have against one another.
Interview with William Golding James Keating Purdue University, May 10, 1962
Question: It has often been said that wars are caused by the dictatorial few. Do you feel this to be so, or do you think anyone given the power is capable of such inhuman atrocity?
Answer: Well, I think wars are much more complicated than that. Some of them have been caused by a few. On the other hand if some of them are surely the bursting of some vicious growth, almost, in civilization, then who knows who applies the lancer to it? There's all the difference in the world between the wars of 1917-the Communist Revolution-on the one hand, and the wars of Genghis Khan on the other, isn't there?
Q.: Yes. Obviously, in Lord of the Flies society plays little part in determining the corruption and violence in man. You've said this is true in society, that it does play a minor role, but do you feel that there are societies that will enhance the possibility of man becoming good? And are we working toward this in democracy?
A.: By instinct and training, and by birth and by position on the face of the globe, I'm pretty well bound to subscribe to a democratic doctrine, am I not? This is so deeply woven into the way we live, or at least the way we live at home in England, that I don't suppose one really questions it much. I think I would say democracy is moving in the right direction, or the democratic way is the way in which to move; equally, it seems to me that a democracy has inherent weaknesses in it-built-in weaknesses. You can't give people freedom without weakening society as an implement of war, if you like, and so this is very much like a sheep among wolves. It's not a question with me as to whether democracy is the right way so much, as to whether democracy can survive and remain what it is. Every time democracy pulls itself together and says, "Well, now I'm being threatened by a totalitarian regime," the first thing it has to do is give up some of its own principles. In England during the Second World War we had to give up a tremendous number of principles in order to achieve the one pointed unity which could possibly withstand Hitler. It's possible to look at the question in this way and say, "Is the remedy not as bad as the disease?" I don't know.
Success
William Golding has written dozens of novels. Golding’s first novel was Lord of the Flies which was published in September 1954. Shortly after Lord of the Flies , The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, and Free Fall were published. William Golding has also wrote an early volume of poems, a stage play, and has collected many essays. Although Golding is most known for his novel Lord of the Flies many of his other works have won awards, and critical acclaim, and have been translated into many different languages. Lord of the Flies has also been made into two different movies. William Golding’s writing style is what makes him really popular, he writes in tremendous detail and gives amazing mental pictures.
Awards
1955 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1966 Awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire)
1970 Honorary doctorate University of Sussex
1974 Honorary doctorate University of Kent
1979 Darkness Visible wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1980 Rites of Passage wins the Booker McConnell Prize
1981 Honorary doctorate University of Warwick
1983 The Nobel Prize for Literature. Honorary doctorates University of Oxford and
The Sorbonne (University of Paris)
1984 Companion of Literature. Honorary doctorate University of Bristol
1988 Knighted by The Queen
1992 Honorary doctorate University of Oviedo (Spain)
The biggest award Golding has ever won was the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize was granted to him by the King of Sweden in 1983. He won the award for outstanding literature.He won the award for his novel Lord of the Flies.
William Golding
Early Life
William Goldingwas born and grew up in Cornwall in 1911. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. Originally, Golding was brought up to be a scientist, but he eventually gave up on that. After two years at Oxford University, William read English literature instead, and became devoted to Anglo-Saxon. From the years of 1935 to 1939, William Golding was occupied doing several different jobs such as being a actor, a writer, a producer, and a settlement house worker. Around that time, he moved to Salisbury where he began teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth's School. There he raised his two children with his wife.
Education
He attended Marlborough Grammar School. In 1930 He went to Oxford University as an undergraduate at Brasenose College. He studied Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English Literature.EMMA
Golding took his B.A. Second Class in the summer of 1934, and later that year his first book, Poems, was published in London
Lord of the Flies
Golding kept a private journal where he kept his personal secrets and feelings. In this journal, he described how he once turned two groups of boys against one another which may have been his inspiration for writing his most acclaimed novel Lord of the Flies. After his teaching experience in Salisbury, William Golding joined the Royal Navy starting out as a regular seaman and then later on as a commander of the German ship called the Bismarck. With his navy experiences along with his past teaching experiences, Golding found inspiration to write a novel “Lord of the Flies”. He wanted to create a plot that would portray the way humans in the world act and how devious we can be. But, during this time, a war was going on and all books on this topic were censored. In order for William to get his book published, he censored his own work by trying to get his message out in another way. He wrote a plot in which boys on a stranded island turn against another and become belligerent. This demonstrates how the people of the world will take horrible actions in order to get what they want and how much hate we can have against one another.
Interview with William Golding
James Keating
Purdue University, May 10, 1962
Question: It has often been said that wars are caused by the dictatorial few. Do you feel this to be so, or do you think anyone given the power is capable of such inhuman atrocity?
Answer: Well, I think wars are much more complicated than that. Some of them have been caused by a few. On the other hand if some of them are surely the bursting of some vicious growth, almost, in civilization, then who knows who applies the lancer to it? There's all the difference in the world between the wars of 1917-the Communist Revolution-on the one hand, and the wars of Genghis Khan on the other, isn't there?
Q.: Yes. Obviously, in Lord of the Flies society plays little part in determining the corruption and violence in man. You've said this is true in society, that it does play a minor role, but do you feel that there are societies that will enhance the possibility of man becoming good? And are we working toward this in democracy?
A.: By instinct and training, and by birth and by position on the face of the globe, I'm pretty well bound to subscribe to a democratic doctrine, am I not? This is so deeply woven into the way we live, or at least the way we live at home in England, that I don't suppose one really questions it much. I think I would say democracy is moving in the right direction, or the democratic way is the way in which to move; equally, it seems to me that a democracy has inherent weaknesses in it-built-in weaknesses. You can't give people freedom without weakening society as an implement of war, if you like, and so this is very much like a sheep among wolves. It's not a question with me as to whether democracy is the right way so much, as to whether democracy can survive and remain what it is. Every time democracy pulls itself together and says, "Well, now I'm being threatened by a totalitarian regime," the first thing it has to do is give up some of its own principles. In England during the Second World War we had to give up a tremendous number of principles in order to achieve the one pointed unity which could possibly withstand Hitler. It's possible to look at the question in this way and say, "Is the remedy not as bad as the disease?" I don't know.
Success
William Golding has written dozens of novels. Golding’s first novel was Lord of the Flies which was published in September 1954. Shortly after Lord of the Flies , The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, and Free Fall were published. William Golding has also wrote an early volume of poems, a stage play, and has collected many essays. Although Golding is most known for his novel Lord of the Flies many of his other works have won awards, and critical acclaim, and have been translated into many different languages. Lord of the Flies has also been made into two different movies. William Golding’s writing style is what makes him really popular, he writes in tremendous detail and gives amazing mental pictures.
Awards
1955 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1966 Awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire)
1970 Honorary doctorate University of Sussex
1974 Honorary doctorate University of Kent
1979 Darkness Visible wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1980 Rites of Passage wins the Booker McConnell Prize
1981 Honorary doctorate University of Warwick
1983 The Nobel Prize for Literature. Honorary doctorates University of Oxford and
The Sorbonne (University of Paris)
1984 Companion of Literature. Honorary doctorate University of Bristol
1988 Knighted by The Queen
1992 Honorary doctorate University of Oviedo (Spain)
The biggest award Golding has ever won was the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize was granted to him by the King of Sweden in 1983. He won the award for outstanding literature.He won the award for his novel Lord of the Flies.